install windows-build-tools stuck

[zcwgd163]

stuck there, any idea?

[Aankhen]

I’m having a similar problem, though in my case it says ‘Successfully installed Python 2.7’ and then hangs.

[loyoan1]

Here is an alternative solution that solved my problem, but that requires the Windows package manager chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org) that can be installed very easily. My solution also worked in a Docker Windows Container for CI.

# hint: install chocolatey first!
# could be that visualstudio2019-workload-vctools is enough
choco install -y visualstudio2019buildtools visualstudio2019-workload-vctools
npm config set msvs_version 2019

After that I could build C++ projects with npm.

[Zoriot]

Look at #179 for more Solutions